LeadAI Academy · Enterprise AI Enablement
Role-specific track · EM · Coach Alex · SAGE

AI for Engineering & People Managers.
Practise the calls you’ll face before the meeting.

Tech-debt narratives finance can’t kill, ADRs and RCAs that survive audit, 1:1 frameworks that surface what the IC won’t say. AI-augmented capacity planning, hiring loops and incident retros calibrated to your team’s actual maturity — not a generic management course.

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3 minutes. 5 decisions. Coach Alex grades every move. See your verdict, share it on LinkedIn.
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8h → 90min
Tech-debt narrative drafted with capacity evidence
1:1-ready
Weekly summaries that surface what the IC won’t say
Audit-ready
ADRs, RCAs and hiring loops that hold up under review

Pilot vignette · simulated outcome from beta cohort · numbers indicative.

Curriculum preview

10 role-specific modules. Here are the first 8.

Each module has a graded artefact, an AI-augmented prompt, and a real-world example anchored to your industry.

01
Retros That Don't Rerun the Same Complaints
Use AI to cluster themes across 6 months of retros.
02
Impediment Backlog Triage5 min
Separate 'coachable' from 'escalate' in 5 minutes.
03
Facilitation Scripts for Hard Meetings
Generate a 15-min agenda for the meeting nobody wants to run.
04
Team Health Pulse from Standup Notes
Read the room, even when you can't be in it.
05
Sprint Goal Sharpener
From 'we'll do a bunch of stuff' to a real commitment.
06
Distributed Retrospectives at Scale
Run a meaningful retro for 24 people across 3 timezones — without it becoming a 90-minute eulogy.
07
Story Splitting at Scale
Decompose epics into INVEST stories that 9 squads can swarm in parallel.
08
Coaching Senior Engineers Who Think Agile Is Overhead−60%
Win over the 15-year staff engineer who's seen 4 'transformations' fail.
What a pilot looks like

Tech-debt narrative · 8h → 90min

What changed
  • EM drafts a quarterly tech-debt narrative with coach Alex/SAGE in 90 minutes — capacity math, velocity deltas and incident links pulled in as evidence, not anecdote.
  • ADRs and RCAs now ship with kill-switch criteria and rollback ownership named — auditor walkthroughs went from a half-day prep to a 20-minute review.
  • 1:1 frameworks surface what the IC won’t say: the EM gets a weekly summary of likely flight-risk signals, prioritised so the conversation happens before the resignation note.
In their words
Finance has killed our tech-debt case for three quarters running. This was the first one that survived — because every line was evidence, not advocacy.
Engineering Manager · SaaS pilot · May 2026
-81%
measured delta over 60 days
Pilot vignette · simulated outcome from beta cohort · numbers indicative, not warranted.
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Alex · SAGE

A live ARIA-powered coach persona calibrated to your role, industry, authority and toolset. Reads your Coaching Profile on every conversation and references your actual tools, regulator and seat.

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Most EMs start with the diagnostic. 60 seconds.

You’ll get a 6-axis AI Readiness score, your three weakest axes, and a 90-day plan calibrated to your seat and your toolset.